125 Diagnosis

[vicodincrutch]

video;

[Hey network. Here is Dr. House at his desk in his office. He's looking scruffy as ever. Maybe a bit more haggered now that we really look at him.]

Black and white. Blah blah blah. I want to know exactly what is wrong with this picture.

[He holds a small white bottle the portion of it that isn't covere by his fingers shows labels for the City General Hospital prescription for House, Gregory. With an unnecessary flourish he opens the bottle then tips it upside down. Out tumbles one white pill. Just one.]

Comments

[diastereomer.livejournal.com]

Generally, the pill goes in your mouth. It does little good if not ingested.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Thank god for specific directions however, this is a prescription. Meaning that there has to be a multiple dosage until it's gone. This was half full.

[diastereomer.livejournal.com]

Sounds like an incompetent pharmacy. You should think of switching pharmacists- or providers, if your pharmacist seems to have something against you.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

I'm a doctor. I work at the hospital. This bottle has been in my pocket.

[diastereomer.livejournal.com]

Unless you happen to have your medical degree in pharmacology, you should not be filling your own prescriptions- so my point still stands.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

I don't. I know who writes my prescription and the faces that do fill my prescriptions. None of them put their sanitized fingers in my pockets.

[dr_conscience]

[Well, this is rather decidedly not good...]

That doesn't seem like something you would let happen.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

You can't be the only one catching on to vital details right now.

But you are.

[dr_conscience]

I suppose most people haven't seen you get a new prescription filled with a half-full bottle sitting in your pocket.

Do you not have a stash -- or stashes -- hidden here?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Not at the hospital. I haven't headed home yet. [Meaning that he's on his way right now.] That's not the point.

[dr_conscience]

Well, who would have been able to get at it?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Someone sneaky. That list is not short.

[dr_conscience]

And you haven't developed any more specific suspicions than that?

[He clearly finds that doubtful.]

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Someone who is disapproving of how I medicate perhaps? Or someone who doesn't want to bother to get a prescription of their own?

[dr_conscience]

I would think that any of the people who disapprove should know that you're not going to have much trouble getting another prescription to fill.

[Not speaking firsthand or anything.]

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Unless they're out to put a stop on that too.

[dr_conscience]

That would have to be a rather involved conspiracy.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

That doesn't sound guilty.

[dr_conscience]

I think I know better than to think that taking your pills away -- or even managing to stop all your prescriptions from going through -- would actually stop you from getting pills.

[as_damaged]

Looks perfectly normal to me.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Ha. Ha.

So it was you. What do you want.

[as_damaged]

What was me?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

You took it.

Why? What point do you want to make?

[as_damaged]

I didn't take anything.

How much did you take?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Not half a bottle.

[So that means not one pill either.]

[as_damaged]

You think someone stole it.

[Or you forgot you took it, House. Addicts do funny things. But she won't press.]

I don't know what happened to your pills.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Is that your story and you're sticking to it?

[as_damaged]

What would be the point?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Either keep investigating or check you off the list.

[as_damaged]

I didn't take it.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

...you didn't.

[as_damaged]

If I had, wouldn't I be taking the opportunity now to make whatever point I wanted to make?

[bedsidemanners.livejournal.com]

The fact that most of my suits now look exactly the same.

What's your prescription for?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a stylistic problem.

Vicodin.

[bedsidemanners.livejournal.com]

You did ask.

Is that a brand name?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

They all look the same. Isn't that a faux pas?

No. It's a trade name it's actually Hydrocodone paracetamol.

[bedsidemanners.livejournal.com]

Not all, just most.

... Pain relief.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

These are the times that try a man's soul. Should I send flowers?

Yes. I want it back.